"Isn't it surprizing how badly I spell ?" Well, you mis-spelled Cringely, so that I got a "string not found" when I went to see if anybody besides me had read him this week. Fortunately I sometimes actually read what's already been posted before sending in one of my own. I've given up on submitting any of Cringely's stuff as stories to Slashdot, they only take about one per year, and then not 'til it's almost aged out. To summerize for the anti-Cringely crowd: Chances are that the X Box is vaporware, intended to steer developers and customers away from the Play Station 2 because of the PS2's potential to be a lot of people's (non MS-running) computer substitute (the possibilities of which Cringely discussed at length several months ago).
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I just wish I could remember it long enough to understand it.:)
Haven't been up to the Southern part of Heaven in a while but I understand that The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is requiring this as well, and even specifying the brand and model (I think they get a bulk discount from IBM). The mental picture I get of 100 students in one of those old lecture halls all typing away at the same time drowning out the professor they're trying to take notes from is either very funny or very frightening, but not as scary as spending 24 hours a day trying to keep that thing from being stolen.:(
Is 1 not a prime number (even though it is divisible only by 1 and itself) just because whoever wrote the rule said it wasn't or does making 1 a prime screw up something else (like letting division by zero be defined)?
Sounds like some of the software the users came up with for their own convenience just "prior art"ed a bunch of what people are trying to pass of as new just 'cause they put it on the 'web. Are they still running it on that same Altos? That would probably be worth a story by itself.
Okay, where I was going with this is that you can generate even numbers by adding a positive odd number and a negative odd number, but I just realised that any negative odd number has at least 3 factors, +1, -1, and itself, so now I remember why I didn't major in math (other than that pesky having to get up and go to class thing).
But seriously, though, even numbers can be made by adding two odd numbers together. Any prime bigger than 2 is going to be an odd number, otherwise it would have at least 3 factors, now I'm starting to confuse myself, anybody know what sort of pattern a graph of primes makes?
Cable is from the cable company, DSL is from the phone company. Not the same people. Both afraid the other will start competing in the business of the one, therefore both holding back in markets where they don't want to compete with each other (but the phone company is using underground sheilded twisted pair messengered with coax for all their new installs up to the subscriber network interface, just in case).
Actually no, as DSL is copper pair technology and this is fiber-optic. I'd settle for a fiber-optic line to the house instead of DSL, though:) except for the price:(
Then what you want is the Slashdot I discovered in October of 98, just before the Halloween Papers, and therefore before Jon Katz and all of the adolescents he attracts:)
Macmillian (sp?) used to publish Red Hat (circa 5.2) and probably paid them to do it. They, being publishers, had distribution channels that Red Hat didn't. Probably same thing with Mandrake.
It got scored at my usual +1, which is what anybody logged in under their user name gets, and that was the whole idea, to boost the AC I quoted from a 0 to a 1. I wasn't too worried about being penalized by a moderator, as they (myself excepted) don't usually worry about anything that gets posted so far down the line in terms of time or order of arrival number.
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"Isn't it surprizing how badly I spell ?"
Well, you mis-spelled Cringely, so that I got a "string not found" when I went to see if anybody besides me had read him this week. Fortunately I sometimes actually read what's already been posted before sending in one of my own. I've given up on submitting any of Cringely's stuff as stories to Slashdot, they only take about one per year, and then not 'til it's almost aged out.
To summerize for the anti-Cringely crowd: Chances are that the X Box is vaporware, intended to steer developers and customers away from the Play Station 2 because of the PS2's potential to be a lot of people's (non MS-running) computer substitute (the possibilities of which Cringely discussed at length several months ago).
I just wish I could remember it long enough to understand it.:)
You mean other than for or (gasp!)against? O.K.
Q."What's your favourite beer...?"
A. cold
--or--
A. free
Haven't been up to the Southern part of Heaven in a while but I understand that The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is requiring this as well, and even specifying the brand and model (I think they get a bulk discount from IBM).
The mental picture I get of 100 students in one of those old lecture halls all typing away at the same time drowning out the professor they're trying to take notes from is either very funny or very frightening, but not as scary as spending 24 hours a day trying to keep that thing from being stolen.:(
Is 1 not a prime number (even though it is divisible only by 1 and itself) just because whoever wrote the rule said it wasn't or does making 1 a prime screw up something else (like letting division by zero be defined)?
First heard of it around April 1st, eh?
I submit stories that no one else does, and they still get declined. :)
That's a most unflattering portrait of you. That is your *face*, isn't it?
I am all too familiar with that nice feeling.
Sounds like some of the software the users came up with for their own convenience just "prior art"ed a bunch of what people are trying to pass of as new just 'cause they put it on the 'web.
Are they still running it on that same Altos? That would probably be worth a story by itself.
Maybe if I'm lucky all the moderators are sleeping in this morning.
Okay, where I was going with this is that you can generate even numbers by adding a positive odd number and a negative odd number, but I just realised that any negative odd number has at least 3 factors, +1, -1, and itself, so now I remember why I didn't major in math (other than that pesky having to get up and go to class thing).
But seriously, though, even numbers can be made by adding two odd numbers together. Any prime bigger than 2 is going to be an odd number, otherwise it would have at least 3 factors, now I'm starting to confuse myself, anybody know what sort of pattern a graph of primes makes?
Do negative numbers count as primes?
Cable is from the cable company, DSL is from the phone company. Not the same people. Both afraid the other will start competing in the business of the one, therefore both holding back in markets where they don't want to compete with each other (but the phone company is using underground sheilded twisted pair messengered with coax for all their new installs up to the subscriber network interface, just in case).
How can anybody be on that much medication and still find the moderator buttons?
Actually no, as DSL is copper pair technology and this is fiber-optic. I'd settle for a fiber-optic line to the house instead of DSL, though :) except for the price :(
I remember something about a song with a chorus that said that, late 70's, early 80's I think.
Then what you want is the Slashdot I discovered in October of 98, just before the Halloween Papers, and therefore before Jon Katz and all of the adolescents he attracts:)
Macmillian (sp?) used to publish Red Hat (circa 5.2) and probably paid them to do it. They, being publishers, had distribution channels that Red Hat didn't. Probably same thing with Mandrake.
If you wanted to get rich off the suffering of others you should have bought Microsoft stock.:)
How dare you sully the good name of Clarence Carter by quoting him in your obnoxious post? Have you no shame?
Is that a new road out in Research Triangle Park? :)
Little Eva, Little Milton, Little Anthony and the Imperials.
The important question, though, is how many Little Debbies could you store?
It got scored at my usual +1, which is what anybody logged in under their user name gets, and that was the whole idea, to boost the AC I quoted from a 0 to a 1. I wasn't too worried about being penalized by a moderator, as they (myself excepted) don't usually worry about anything that gets posted so far down the line in terms of time or order of arrival number.